wxPDFView

wxPDFView is a set of wxWidgets controls to display and navigate PDF documents using Google Chromes PDFium library.

Resources

• Documentation
• Download
• GitHub

Features

Currently implemented:

• PDF page display control
• PDF bookmarks control
• PDF thumbnail control
• Zooming
• Search
• Printing
• Forms
• Loading PDF from custom sources (any std::istream)

Currently not implemented:

• Text selection

Requirements

• wxWidgets: 3.0.0 or newer
• PDFium: 2705 (b8180d491e0e38544acbe1b59f949ca4a2701374) or newer

Compiling

• Build PDFium per instructions on the PDFium page.
• Use GYP_DEFINES='pdf_enable_xfa=0' when building pdfium
• Use CMake to build the samples/simple project
• Or use the included CMake file in your project and link wxPDFView lib (will link the required pdfium libs)

Using

Currently includes 3 classes you can include into your own frames

• wxPDFView Main pdf view
• wxPDFViewBookmarksCtrl tree control displaying bookmarks contained in the PDF
• wxPDFViewThumbnailListBox listbox control for displaying thumbnails

Or you can base your PDF viewing on a complete PDF viewer frame

• wxPDFViewDocumentFrame Combining all controls into a PDF viewer window

After initializing an instance of wxPDFView call wxPDFViewBookmarksCtrl::SetPDFView and/or wxPDFViewThumbnailListBox. Call wxPDFView::LoadFile to load a PDF into the view.